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A hard choice for Tomasello

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 April 2020

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Philip Pettit*
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University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ08544. ppettit@princeton.eduhttp://www.princeton.edu/~ppettit School of Philosophy, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
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Abstract

Michael Tomasello explains the human sense of obligation by the role it plays in negotiating practices of acting jointly and the commitments they underwrite. He draws in his work on two models of joint action, one from Michael Bratman, the other from Margaret Gilbert. But Bratman's makes the explanation too difficult to succeed, and Gilbert's makes it too easy.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 43 , 2020 , e81
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